Software security system for maintaining integrity of compiled object code by restricting users ability to define compilers
United States Patent 05111390

A computer system which uses a main processor with main memory, and operates under a specialized software operating system, provides for checking the integrity of its compiler by use of software routines which permit an authorized user or an authorized program to authorize a file as a compiler and additionally will operate to identify any ordinary user and ordinary programs so as to prevent such ordinary user or ordinary program from authorizing a code file as a compiler.